Due to their expediment updates and lack of potentially vulnerable carrier and OEM addons, Nexus devices can be considered as the most safest among Android devices, which is being certified by Google, but everything has some vulnerabilities, and newest Nexus devices are no exemption. As per a Romanian security researcher Bogdan Alecu, the Nexus lineup is vulnerable to a denial-of-service attacks based on a special type of SMS. This attack relies on Flash SMS, short messages displayed on the screen without being stored in the inbox. These are most often seen in pre-paid contract plans, used by a carrier to send messages with recent costs. As it turns off, Flash SMS messages sent in rapid succession can cause some unexpected behavior like freezing, crashing, or even rebooting. The newest Nexus phones will reboot after approximately 30 messages sent in a short time. Users won’t be able to realize that they device was attacked without looking at the screen. Sometimes some data...
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